There is rhythm and rhyme at Australian Poetry Slam 2022
Image: 2016 Australian Poetry Slam National Champion, Arielle Cottingham. Image: website
Poets, bards, and troubadours will be in full-flight at the Word Travels Australian Poetry Slam (APS) National Final at the Sydney Opera House this October.
Audiences will be dazzled with prose, punctuation, performance, and alliteration as Australia’s best wordsmiths spellbind and awe with truth and delivery. The APS is the most underestimated cultural event on Sydney’s busy calendar; however, this is the event that ALWAYS makes good.
There will be laughter and tears and thought-provoking sentiment; wine and cheese and acoustic resonance. This is your call to listen. The door is open. The mic is on. Push into the crowd and find your spot.
Australian Poetry Slam (APS) combines stories, poems, theatre and hip-hop in an annual international performing writers’ program. Slam Champion 2021, Huda the Goddess opens the 2022 APS National Final.
Huda the Goddess is the current Australian Poetry Slam Champion and two-time Queensland champ. As a proud African-Muslim woman it is important to her that young women from her community are represented and their stories are shared. Poetry is her connection to communities, land and her people. Watch her encore performances before she hands over her crown.
With heats already underway, the competition is heating up. The grand prize? A Writer’s Festival Tour and over $10,000 worth of prizes.
The APS is sure to light-up hearts and minds. Swing on by to have your mind-blown in what’s set to be an unforgettable night!
